![]() Eight days later, on October 5, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey published a story in The New York Times about Harvey Weinstein that sparked the #MeToo movement. But when he best demonstrated his gift of timing was when the moment came to die: the Playboy editor passed away on September 27, 2017. He sensed where the sexual revolution would go and knew how to offer a transgression perfectly calibrated for popular taste, a capitalist and patriarchal bit of mischief that was perfectly adjusted decade after decade to keep rhyming with the times. He created an image as a smooth and seductive guy, who puts a little jazz on the phonograph and mixes a good Martini. He later came up with a product and a character – himself – that became inseparable. ![]() Hefner emerged in the early 1950s as a young writer and cartoonist who married his first girlfriend and whose only experience with magazines was a children’s publication. ![]() “His timing was perfect,” said his obituary in The New York Times. Hugh Hefner always could smell opportunity.
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